Word: lincolnisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first President of the U.S. used the coach-and-four as his main vehicle of communication, traveled 3,000 miles during his first three years in office to carry his personality and policies to the people who counted. Abraham Lincoln used the personal letter for much of his communication with the press. As an institution, the presidential press conference was not established until Woodrow Wilson was in the White House, and was not energetically exploited until Franklin Roosevelt arrived. Last week the institution switched to a new channel-which would have amazed its founder and fascinated its exploiter...
...Maxwell House) when I work for them.'' But what the sponsors increasingly crave is a man like Ed Sullivan, who has given blood in San Francisco, landed in a helicopter on Boston Common, and submerged in a Navy diver's suit, all for the glory of Lincoln-Mercury...
...LINCOLN WAS SHOT (304 pp.) -Jim Bishop-Harper...
...triumph and tragedy of Abraham Lincoln remains one of the great stories of U.S. history, and the poets, professors and politicians never tire of telling it in all its phases. Now an oldtime rewrite man has moved in, read 7,000,000 words of evidence about Lincoln's murder, and recast the familiar facts with startling, tabloid immediacy. In the course of his relentless, clock's-tick chronicle of the crucial hours, Jim Bishop, once of the New York News and Mirror and now editor of the Catholic Digest, sticks to police-blotter facts-and makes the state...
Sound Money. The Bank of the Manhattan Co. was one of the city's biggest when Chase was founded in a one-room Broadway office in 1877 by John Thompson, a Wall Streeter with such an abiding admiration for Sound-Moneyman Salmon P. Chase. Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury, that he named the bank for him. While the Manhattan Co.'s bank grew slowly, Chase grew rapidly. It took over so many other banks that it once had 84 directors...